Hip hop is taken too seriously

“It must be, in part, a fear of uncoolness—of fogeydom—that keeps many people from coming to grips with rap. They are perfectly happy to claim that the sight of Joe Camel causes millions of young’uns to smoke cigarettes; but they are reluctant to consider what rap—poured constantly into you ears—might do. (620)

For example, many believed that the Sean “Puffy” Combs trial of 1999, was all influenced from rap music. Combs, being the owner of the widely known Bad Boy Records, was simply being judged by the ownership of such a name on a record label and the fact that much of his music and his protégés was really how they lived and behaved on a regular basis. Considering the fact that none of the main accusers were at the club that he and Jennifer Lopez were attending, people still believe he is guilty to this day. The reasons that people believe such things

In nearly any aspect of the entertainment business, violence sells because that is what people want to hear or see, whether it is television, movies, radio, EVEN rap music. So if one wants to censor what is being said on some record, they should tend to all other fields of the media also, because it is the same thing, just in a different form. Violence really doesn’t justify anything at all; but to try and control one aspect of the music industry, being Rap/Hip-hop, is simply unfair.

Until people begin to see rap as another form of entertainment in the music industry, one will always have excuses for the way people behave and they will always have some reason to blame it on rap, until they look inside themselves to see what is going on, rather than what the next person is doing with themselves.

Jay Nordlinger also states, “The country is engages in a great debate over gun control; but there should be no disagreement about the awfulness—why not go all the way? the evil—of the most violent, dehumanizing, and desensitizing rap”(623).

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